Businessweek has published a lead story on Jonathan Ive, head of Apple's design team. I thought this was interesting:
"Ive invests his design dollars in state-of-the-art prototyping equipment, not large numbers of people.

This is one of the most interesting uses of technology to disrupt the publishing industry since Amazon.com. Self publishing has been an interesting idea for many years but the promise always out paced the reality.

Andy Rutledge takes a very critical look at the Poynter Institute's latest eye tracking study. The Poynter Institute is one of the more established, and generally, acclaimed sources for online journalism.

For the past few years we have been trying to convince clients the "user testing" isn't all its cracked up to be. Christopher Fahey has a great 5 part series called "User Research Smoke and Mirrors" pts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.